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CustomModelPage

etc.admin.CustomModelPage allows easy construction of custom admin pages processing user input.

Use it if you need to perform some action in admin requiring user input.

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from django.db import models
from django.http import HttpResponse

from etc.admin import CustomModelPage, admins
from tests.testapp.models import MyChildModel1


class MyPageModelAdmin(admins.CustomPageModelAdmin):

    fields = (
        'my_field', 'moy_relation'
    )
    autocomplete_fields = (
        'my_relation',
    )


class MyPage(CustomModelPage):

    title = 'Test page 1'  # set page title

    # Define some fields.
    my_field = models.CharField('some title', max_length=10)
    my_relation = models.ForeignKey(MyChildModel1, null=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

    admin_cls = MyPageModelAdmin  # set admin class for this page

    def save(self):
        ...  # Implement data handling from self attributes here.

        # self.bound_admin has some useful methods.
        # self.bound_request allows you to access current HTTP request.
        self.bound_admin.message_success(self.bound_request, f'Hey, done!')

        super().save()

        # to return a custom response you can assign self.bound_response
        # this can be useful, e.g. for file downloads
        self.bound_response = HttpResponse(b'%)')


# Register my page within Django admin.
MyPage.register()